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Education news TUSTIN District Continues Parent Newsletter For the eighth year in a row, the Tustin Unified School District will publish a monthly newsletter for parents of students at Foothill and Tustin high schools.

The periodical will contain information about the SAT and other tests. It also will feature data on scholarship programs as well as college planning information. The publication is sponsored by the Foothill and Tustin Academic Booster clubs and the schools’ parent-teacher organizations.

For more information about the newsletter, contact the career centers at Foothill High School (714) 730-7495, Tustin High School (714) 730-7438 or the District Communications Office at (714) 730-7339.

Scholastic Aptitude Tests are one of the measures colleges use in deciding which students to admit.

BUENA PARK Centralia District Has 2 New Principals Two new principals joined the Centralia School District this school year.

Marie Clement, a former fine arts coordinator for the Orange County Department of Education, is the new principal of Buena Terra Elementary School.

Jim Luft became principal of Walter Knott school after serving for 24 years in the Orange Unified School District.

Clement holds a doctorate from the University of La Verne, and most recently served as assistant principal at Myers Elementary School in the Rialto Unified School District. She replaces Doug DeVore, who moved to Encinitas Union School District.

Luft was principal of Anaheim Hills Elementary School before taking over from Jef Schleiger, now principal at Los Coyotes School.

The Centralia School District serves the northwest portion of Orange County.

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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO 6 Named National Merit Semifinalists Six high school students from the Capistrano Unified School District have been named semifinalists in the 1995 National Merit Scholarship Competition.

The six are Jim Lindeman and Andrew Ritz from Capistrano Valley High School; Adam Cota from Dana Hills High School, and Priscilla Hung, Darrel Marique and Seema Nagpal from San Clemente High School.

Only about half a percent of each state’s high school graduating classes are represented in the nationwide pool of semifinalists. They will compete for more than 6,000 scholarships worth more than $26 million. The scholarships are scheduled to be awarded next spring.

The National Merit Scholarship Competition is a privately financed nonprofit organization whose activities are supported by roughly 600 independent sponsor groups and institutions.

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--COMPILED BY BERT ELJERA, LESLEY WRIGHT, JEFF BEAN AND DANIELLE FOUQUETTE